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"titian" poems
Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 9:49 PM UTC
A Coastal Sunset: transitional beauty
Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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291 How the old Mountains drip with Sunset How the Hemlocks burn— How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder By the Wizard Sun— How the old Steeples hand the Scarlet Till the Ball is full— Have I the lip of the Flamingo That I dare to tell? Then, how the Fire ebbs like Billows— Touching all the Grass With a departing—Sapphire—feature— As a Duchess passed— How a small Dusk crawls on the Village Till the Houses blot And the odd Flambeau, no men carry Glimmer on the Street— How it is Night—in Nest and Kennel— And where was the Wood— Just a Dome of Abyss is Bowing Into Solitude— These are the Visions flitted ***** Titian—never told— Domenichino dropped his pencil— Paralyzed, with Gold—
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How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
This morning, I walked with god and man, and animal I've come to believe, no other possibility, He denies me sleep as His insurance policy some One wants to be sure, someone sees His sunrise poem, He selected this ancien regi-man to be His admiring audience, with deer, squirrels, rabbits, a red fox, an osprey always complaining, why do they get the cheap seats so up at five, no jive, gotta get there early, for a good seat, on the dock by his name watch the color blue transgender from feminine elegy elegant pale to peacock royal male, the water, a contributing editor, phases in with a steely grin, with ermine whitecap hints and an orange marmalade sky homage, I cannot try to describe and here is where man comes in... as the tableau reveals a still life come to be, a painting enlivened, come to me free, bursting with effervescence and animal life tribunes, paying on... strange... my Pandora app back to back, plays for me Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, hard upon it comes Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals and I enfeebled amateur, needy for a word titan Titian, can think only this trite thought: *I know not who is the instrument and who is the artist, but virtuous us, We, all, now-capital-buddies, now, all, well-color-capitalized, god and man and animal, crooning a chorus of appreciation let this "accidental" miracle, this collaboration, enthuse me, to live happily with anticipation for just one more day...* June 2014
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 6:56 AM UTC
This morning I walked with god and man
Waiting for me today was a grapy sky, a purplish dusk over titian fields. Then a familiar autumn scent perfumed the air, the fragrant tea olive burst in orange blooms. I ambled and paused a bit, and watched the little ray of sun that lingered on the horizon. I saw an outline of my dream, a vision above the western isles. I held my breath and firmly thought. I have to find my purpose. Embrace my lows and my highs, my weaknesses and strengths, even the creeping darkness and the marvelous sunrise. I have to love life each day. With every sunset as my witness to accomplish something worthwhile.
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Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021 at 10:12 AM UTC
An Autumn Sunset
"Here Made of Gone" for  Isabella Stewart Gardner Lyrics By Randy Vera Music By: Randy Vera and Anthony J. Resta   http://bopnique.com/anthony-j-resta-and-randall-vera-finalists-john-lennon LYRICS : Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, from my three thousand year old Chinese KU, I toast you.  Mrs. Jack, I am your Bronze Eagle. I cut the painting at the frame – thieves by any other name. Mrs. Jack with handcuffs and ***** I overcame your walls. Your collection’s complete. Titian's Europa still hangs. The mirror to my: Piece de la resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here, made of gone.  Mrs Jack, I’m your new William James. Through your kindness, you support me, in Dutch Room empty frames. Like John Singer Sargent, I toil between your walls. I am Vermeer’s "corn flower blue," indescribable.  The metaphysical: Known unknown! St Patrick’s Day 1990, I’m in Boston in the Fenway. For my penance, I’ll go to Saint John’s, drop to my knees, and like you, scrub the tiles clean. Titian's Europa still hangs, the mirror to my: piece de La resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here made of gone.  Where language fails that where art triumphs. The interloper between camps of reason and dreams. I’m an event not cognition. Like any event stored in canvas, paper, pen ,or ink. Oh Mrs Jack I so love your "Head Band." I’m also a Redsox fan. I loved the Champagne and donuts, and thank you for the paintings.
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 6:22 AM UTC
"Here Made Of Gone" for Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Randy Vera (BMI) finalist, 2012 John Lennon Award (Jazz Catagory)
"Here Made of Gone" for  Isabella Stewart Gardner Lyrics By Randy Vera Music By: Randy Vera and Anthony J. Resta   http://bopnique.com/anthony-j-resta-and-randall-vera-finalists-john-lennon LYRICS : Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, from my three thousand year old Chinese KU, I toast you.  Mrs. Jack, I am your Bronze Eagle. I cut the painting at the frame – thieves by any other name. Mrs. Jack with handcuffs and ***** I overcame your walls. Your collection’s complete. Titian's Europa still hangs. The mirror to my: Piece de la resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here, made of gone.  Mrs Jack, I’m your new William James. Through your kindness, you support me, in Dutch Room empty frames. Like John Singer Sargent, I toil between your walls. I am Vermeer’s "corn flower blue," indescribable.  The metaphysical: Known unknown! St Patrick’s Day 1990, I’m in Boston in the Fenway. For my penance, I’ll go to Saint John’s, drop to my knees, and like you, scrub the tiles clean. Titian's Europa still hangs, the mirror to my: piece de La resistance. I’m your creme de la creme. I’m the John with the Procures on the wall in Vermeer’s concert. Here made of gone.  Where language fails that where art triumphs. The interloper between camps of reason and dreams. I’m an event not cognition. Like any event stored in canvas, paper, pen ,or ink. Oh Mrs Jack I so love your "Head Band." I’m also a Redsox fan. I loved the Champagne and donuts, and thank you for the paintings.
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She left me in a hurry, with no word of her return so I sit and wait, in longing, keep her treasures safe, and yearn for her face to gaze upon me, as she fettles her dear skin, with the pots of creams and lotions I keep for her, within my rose-lined drawers and cupboards, the little blue glass bird with wedding rings upon his beak I asked, he hasn’t heard of when our lady may be back to grace us with her care, her brushes sit with us and fret of the tangles in her hair and all lack of gloss and shine finger tips cannot bestow within her titian crowning, oh! Where did she go? Days slip by unhindered, and merging seasons pass, without her song or laughter reflected in my glass. I may as well be firewood, my veneer begins to crack, then, hark! I hear sweet footsteps! My mistress has come back! Her wedding rings rehomed at last, the bird and I rejoice, as she brushes out her hair and sings, for we have missed her voice. She polishes away the cracks, takes a seat upon her throne, rearranging pots and lotions, I’m so glad that she came home.
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 6:57 PM UTC
The Dressing Table
You asked the color of my dreams. In sleep, my eyes have sought The inky black of raven lashes. Starry nights and sooty ashes. Prussian blue of fading violets Indigo of clouds and silence Beryl skies and turquoise seas Blue-green waters of the deep Peacock feathers of emerald green Mossy dells of faery queens Fields of wheat and brilliant suns Amber gold in mid-autumns Coral reefs and salmon streams Marmalade and tangerines Auburn sunsets, titian lips Hennaed hands and fingertips Blushing brides and rosy cheeks Pink hued walls and white topped peaks Silver moons and crystal nights Downy geese in graceful flight Ask not the color of my dreams The question is not whole; Deep within my rainbow’d sleep Lies the color of my soul.
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 11:46 PM UTC
the color of my dreams
My soul whispered a secret to my heart, It spoke of spilled blood upon a rose, Rouged lips within the garden, Drops of crimson liquid blush. [CHORUS] Nature’s beloved colour is green, So red speaks of originality, Blood is a passion, Scarlet bleeding from thy own, A claret sun dawning beyond, Sanguine stained skies. When the little cardinal sings sweetly, A doorway opens I never chose, Visions of a bloodshot key, A lock rusted with dried blood. A glimpse through the keyhole, A pale forest awaits on the other side, Showers of cherry blossoms, Falling upon the snow. Red berries bloom under crystal snow, Glints of sunlight touch down, Sparks of fire captured within, Just beyond this rubicund door. [CHORUS] The dreams I am allowed, Burn and scar my will, When the door swings open, Of its own accord. Damask petals on the wind. How warm and gentle that spray of blood, Like a hundred tender kisses, And the golden keys to Heaven. I glimpsed the gules of true heraldry, A suffused spirit at the dawn of memory, Imprisoned by a cage of vermillion frost, Warmed by a glass of spiced wine. [CHORUS] A roseate palace at the end of a long walk, Painted titian by my tear drops, Caress a florid complexion, Carmine not my own. Roan stones dusted, By the fall of Angels light, Make-believe incarnadine carpet of, A mirrored auburn dusk. I settle back into the maroon night, The darkness flushed by concealed art, Bay canvas touched-up with unreal imagery, Indifferent to the passing of my former life. [CHORUS] Rubies fall from ruddy clouds, These gems are not for me, Reddened glass has come to pass, The moment of my undoing. [PAUSE (Epilogue)] Red is not for me, Red was not meant to be...
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 10:32 PM UTC
Song of the Rococo
My soul whispered a secret to my heart, It spoke of spilled blood upon a rose, Rouged lips within the garden, Drops of crimson liquid blush. [CHORUS] Nature’s beloved colour is green, So red speaks of originality, Blood is a passion, Scarlet bleeding from thy own, A claret sun dawning beyond, Sanguine stained skies. When the little cardinal sings sweetly, A doorway opens I never chose, Visions of a bloodshot key, A lock rusted with dried blood. A glimpse through the keyhole, A pale forest awaits on the other side, Showers of cherry blossoms, Falling upon the snow. Red berries bloom under crystal snow, Glints of sunlight touch down, Sparks of fire captured within, Just beyond this rubicund door. [CHORUS] The dreams I am allowed, Burn and scar my will, When the door swings open, Of its own accord. Damask petals on the wind. How warm and gentle that spray of blood, Like a hundred tender kisses, And the golden keys to Heaven. I glimpsed the gules of true heraldry, A suffused spirit at the dawn of memory, Imprisoned by a cage of vermillion frost, Warmed by a glass of spiced wine. [CHORUS] A roseate palace at the end of a long walk, Painted titian by my tear drops, Caress a florid complexion, Carmine not my own. Roan stones dusted, By the fall of Angels light, Make-believe incarnadine carpet of, A mirrored auburn dusk. I settle back into the maroon night, The darkness flushed by concealed art, Bay canvas touched-up with unreal imagery, Indifferent to the passing of my former life. [CHORUS] Rubies fall from ruddy clouds, These gems are not for me, Reddened glass has come to pass, The moment of my undoing. [PAUSE (Epilogue)] Red is not for me, Red was not meant to be...
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Sometimes I feel Like a tethered titian Of sorts Tied to and underneath the Footsteps of morals Above me on earth Angry with no shoes I stomp around with my thunderous feet Because no tailor would tie String around my arches and leather beneath my soles To protect me from the hot coals that line The carpet of my cage. A mythological beast of old is what I feel like Some days And in many ways I feel like A god of flight Not confined to the barriers of night But to the endless blue hued sky That my golden wings contrast against So sharply they cut through the air Propelling me in circles around a bigger circle That the mortals below me still think to be flat My heels clasped with wings confining me To the jail of myself where I am The warden of one and exact my Revenge on my prisoner daily With the force of a titans foot Tricked into thinking wings could Be shoes.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM UTC
Titans Fooled.
“Mrs. Tubb, prepare my raincoat,” he said, “I’m going under the carpet.” His ears were steaming. “I’ll be waiting by the hanged stag,” he said. “If it gets to six and I'm still not home, put tobacco in the telephone.” Down there, at the foot of the stairs, Mrs Tubb’s tears fell to the flattened backwards. In the middle of the night, whilst she was sleeping, And without her permission, He had changed her name to Margot St. Vincent. “Take off that murderer’s moustache and stretch out on the infamous Chelsea Blackmail Floor. Ask the biggest bugs to dance, You may never get another chance.” The quietly handsome and magnificent Millicent Milligan was feeling rather ill again. She had been dreaming of the brittle marigolds of Saint Petersburg. She had been dreaming of pine cones and boiling marmalade. Her home had fallen into a hole. It was on the evening news, But by the following morning they had lost interest, A mountain had struck a commercial airliner and so no one was much impressed by her Home in Hole Hell. 355 were dead, And possibly a well known racehorse, And a corpse in transit who, of course, was already dead, but still, it was vexing for the family. They found a priest in a poplar tree, And the head of a hand model at the back of a cave. (The hands were still intact and were couriered to their agent in a special flask). Half in, half out of her delicious stockings Wendice Titian cuts out scissor clippings of her Sinister yellow sister. Overnight the years twist. Edgar Snooker has heard he is to play Hitler's dog on the silver screen. Edgar Snooker is not a dog. And the screen was never silver. And besides, it is not true. Someone is out to destabilise him. As posh, brainwashed sausages consult The Punchline Advisor of Dunkirk, As the Lord is seen on all fours on His moon Causing daily electrical police misfortune, As the masses embark on the clamorous, scattered and impossible journey to disappointed purity, As her money is without temperament, As the self-conscious guilt daughter unbuttons her plush helmet, So the richly magnetised stars are winding down. As candles whisper in the middle of the road, As Margot St. Vincent revolves the nickel tap Of the gas powered knitting plate, So Father Flynn is inconsolable. He found a photograph of ****** Bob on top of his wife’s hat. She denied everything, Including that she was there at all. Father Flynn fell for it. That's faith for you.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 8:12 AM UTC
#5
“Mrs. Tubb, prepare my raincoat,” he said, “I’m going under the carpet.” His ears were steaming. “I’ll be waiting by the hanged stag,” he said. “If it gets to six and I'm still not home, put tobacco in the telephone.” Down there, at the foot of the stairs, Mrs Tubb’s tears fell to the flattened backwards. In the middle of the night, whilst she was sleeping, And without her permission, He had changed her name to Margot St. Vincent. “Take off that murderer’s moustache and stretch out on the infamous Chelsea Blackmail Floor. Ask the biggest bugs to dance, You may never get another chance.” The quietly handsome and magnificent Millicent Milligan was feeling rather ill again. She had been dreaming of the brittle marigolds of Saint Petersburg. She had been dreaming of pine cones and boiling marmalade. Her home had fallen into a hole. It was on the evening news, But by the following morning they had lost interest, A mountain had struck a commercial airliner and so no one was much impressed by her Home in Hole Hell. 355 were dead, And possibly a well known racehorse, And a corpse in transit who, of course, was already dead, but still, it was vexing for the family. They found a priest in a poplar tree, And the head of a hand model at the back of a cave. (The hands were still intact and were couriered to their agent in a special flask). Half in, half out of her delicious stockings Wendice Titian cuts out scissor clippings of her Sinister yellow sister. Overnight the years twist. Edgar Snooker has heard he is to play Hitler's dog on the silver screen. Edgar Snooker is not a dog. And the screen was never silver. And besides, it is not true. Someone is out to destabilise him. As posh, brainwashed sausages consult The Punchline Advisor of Dunkirk, As the Lord is seen on all fours on His moon Causing daily electrical police misfortune, As the masses embark on the clamorous, scattered and impossible journey to disappointed purity, As her money is without temperament, As the self-conscious guilt daughter unbuttons her plush helmet, So the richly magnetised stars are winding down. As candles whisper in the middle of the road, As Margot St. Vincent revolves the nickel tap Of the gas powered knitting plate, So Father Flynn is inconsolable. He found a photograph of ****** Bob on top of his wife’s hat. She denied everything, Including that she was there at all. Father Flynn fell for it. That's faith for you.
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chiaroscuro moment molten chords in golden glow titian ringlets cascade from linen shoulders as your hands bring liquid color to idle black and white chorded words of three parts Not easily broken Ebb and flow as breath over water a shift in timbre resonant teak fettered in silver *heady scent of resin and balsam reeds echoed drones the cantored dance begins Taking flight the quiet arias rise coursing low over open moors Eyes veiled green a fog shrouded shoreline We leave transient prints In damp sand... Sonorous notes From kilted pipers A flash of tartan on thistled field Drummers pulse the motion of life You raise the standard This ancient song is yours and mine. Open eyes to desert sky Burning blue and empty As fresh pages fall un-inked on thorny ground Only the ache of a melody remains Lost refrains broken notes in my DNA Inspiration drifts away *I used to have a recurring dream of me, and two other friends - in a recording studio with the complete sheets of music in front of us - which we were singing...and when I wake up...I can never remember the song. 03/2008 © 2008 TL Boehm
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Oct 12, 2013
Oct 12, 2013 at 6:00 PM UTC
Chiaroscuro Moment
alessandro botticelli said let there be venus (said let there be you.) you running your hands down your own curves blind; the mirrors are all broken here. it doesn’t matter if you want this. i want this dotted i (crossed t) wants this **** is this, for instance. a pear: bruised muscled like holy breaststhighs completely inmoving (outmoving) breathe— celebrate the words going upward to the sky and the strawberry-red hair cascading down it hungers (like you) to touch my back gently curl around my shoulders like your cold fingers in January **** not skeletal. let there be me. let there be—here is where the words stop mattering to me— let there be caramelchocolate skin of sunlit honey tint melting into itself on the wooden floor (we all scream for ice cream) titian and anadyomene me wringing long wet raven hair my legs are covered in salt sand once the sea goes dry. almond eyes upturned (angular) marvel at your own geometry. lips of salome drawn upward into a not-yet-smile (cherubic) to the women who give their thin pale bodies to muscular men with perfect arms to hold them down: i am for you. i with my ******* that blossom at your winter touch my thighs scarred by ivory teeth—no. i with ******* in full bloom (orchids) thighs sculpted by God himself don’t you want to make love to me? doesn’t the world want to make love? love that tastes more metallic than the blood behind my lips don’t you want to bite it out? taste the sweetness behind them? run your hands over the elysian fields of my thighs and the valley between them don’t you want my legs slung over your shoulders don’t you want your tongue on my vast skin sweat made of sugar and salt. (bittersweet) you want lips crashed against yours like w a ves eyelashes sweeping your cheeks you want don’t you want me **** with nothing to cover me but my blanket of raven hair for immodesty’s sake! perhaps i am (is) small. but the mirrors are all broke}n here
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Jul 25, 2011
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM UTC
The Birth of...
alessandro botticelli said let there be venus (said let there be you.) you running your hands down your own curves blind; the mirrors are all broken here. it doesn’t matter if you want this. i want this dotted i (crossed t) wants this **** is this, for instance. a pear: bruised muscled like holy breaststhighs completely inmoving (outmoving) breathe— celebrate the words going upward to the sky and the strawberry-red hair cascading down it hungers (like you) to touch my back gently curl around my shoulders like your cold fingers in January **** not skeletal. let there be me. let there be—here is where the words stop mattering to me— let there be caramelchocolate skin of sunlit honey tint melting into itself on the wooden floor (we all scream for ice cream) titian and anadyomene me wringing long wet raven hair my legs are covered in salt sand once the sea goes dry. almond eyes upturned (angular) marvel at your own geometry. lips of salome drawn upward into a not-yet-smile (cherubic) to the women who give their thin pale bodies to muscular men with perfect arms to hold them down: i am for you. i with my ******* that blossom at your winter touch my thighs scarred by ivory teeth—no. i with ******* in full bloom (orchids) thighs sculpted by God himself don’t you want to make love to me? doesn’t the world want to make love? love that tastes more metallic than the blood behind my lips don’t you want to bite it out? taste the sweetness behind them? run your hands over the elysian fields of my thighs and the valley between them don’t you want my legs slung over your shoulders don’t you want your tongue on my vast skin sweat made of sugar and salt. (bittersweet) you want lips crashed against yours like w a ves eyelashes sweeping your cheeks you want don’t you want me **** with nothing to cover me but my blanket of raven hair for immodesty’s sake! perhaps i am (is) small. but the mirrors are all broke}n here
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chlorophyll green, verdent, colour me trees freeze dry to amber, yellow, cardinal red liquid gold, titian, xanthous, carmine, deepwine burgandy, magenta, saffron, orange, rubicant, henna, bronze and copper burnished, cracked terracotta and then finally... bittersweet crumpled brown what a pallette of cold night air painting daubed on wooded canvas' life portrayed in leaf-ed glory all before our autumnal eyes
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Mar 24, 2014
Mar 24, 2014 at 6:07 AM UTC
cold colour fusion
time passes, does it not, trickling away in drops, from a leaking tap unnoticed imperceptible, drops of our days and months that tsunami into years we might grow more cynical or wise we might allow the animals to howl or to transform or we might eliminate hierarchy and symbolism and see plain and clear past the allegory what is left of the experiment (an unintended one, an unknowing participant even) the residue, the remains of the years – what chemical composition do we have? What has transpired here? - as clueless as we are of the first expansions the time when the universes arrive in another cycle; or perhaps we could see everything in the cocksureness of faith and drag on, in suspension, leave in doubt or in certainty – each but a conditioning, a myth, the truth shrouded in symbol and plainness O sweet loves, Time wraps us in its mysterious archaic cyberspace an inner space that draws a roar, a bark, a howl and we have justifications, visionary words, systems to put everything into perspective like a Titian framed so elegantly in an esteemed museum
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 12:37 AM UTC
time passes, does it not
Repetition is the best petition. Drive that refrain into your brain. It’s my mission. Driven on by Stewart Copeland the musician. Drums and dance Send me into a trance. Transcendental music Any way you choose it. Repetition, repetition, repetition Just as potent as nuclear fission. Sometimes, for me, it’s just too much. As crazy as Screaming Lord Sutch. Yet here I make a telling submission About the power of repetition As beautiful as a painting by Titian. A composition to appeal to your cognition To get you into a better condition Without transition. There are four hundred and ninety rhymes Of repetition And that’s not something from superstition. But I’d better avoid a war of attrition Even with your kindly permission. It’s great to prance And have a dance. I’m glad you’ve given This poem a glance To give its rhythms every chance. My aim is to enhance And cut through the boredom like a lance. Poems are music Poems are Romance So let’s advance Then make a stance. That’s my position. Paul Butters © PB 2\2\2020 (first line written 31\1 then notes made 1\2). Final line added 3\2.
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Feb 2, 2020
Feb 2, 2020 at 5:53 AM UTC
Repetition
My life was stuck in greyscale Until you came along With beautiful watercolors. You painted the skies With amethyst and sapphire With coral and azure. You painted the autumn trees, With amber and titian With hazel and maroon. You flooded the dark oceans With turquoise and navy. You sprinkled the grey mountains With shimmers of flaxen sunlight. My entire life exploded Into an exquisite rainbow. And then you left. And the radiant world You had painted for me Slowly faded Back into anaemic dust and gloom.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 2:09 PM UTC
Watercolors
what if we could grasp things in our hands..? I don't mean plain, concrete items, I mean what if we could grasp the memories, the changing of the seasons, and the people we love into one little item? how long could we contain it inside such a microscopic view of abstract morals and views? how about that titian leaf lying around in the pile near your door? go and pick it up. what do you feel, hear, smell, see, perhaps even taste in the moment? I think that in that moment when our minds have come to a conclusive point about the values grasped into something so simple, we can hold it. (j.a.r.)
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 12:02 AM UTC
Abstract Grasping
Through olive trees in wooded groves across sparkling streams swiftly he goes in a golden chariot that is keenly pulled by four black Panthers, to the joy of their lord For this is Dionysus lawgiver wine drinker god of peace son of Zeus and Persephone he holds tight the reigns of vine and ivy to reach the shrine of Apollo finally. He dismounts his ride still holding his thyrsus that fennel staff adorned with Ivy poisonous topped with a titian pine tree cone here to pay homage to one of his own. By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 2:06 AM UTC
Dionsysus
My father used to call them stitches in the ground. He said they were just like mine, only bigger. Big metal tacks of red-iron, breaking through the brush on planks of driftwood, placed methodically by his grandfather— a patriarch I will never meet. Miles of them, pacing the landscape, allowing direction for us to walk. I asked how the ground cut itself so bad. He said it was an accident just like mine, only bigger. I imagined an old man drubbing stretches of metal between wood and dirt; green earth-blood stemmed by scarred, titian hues. My father used to call them stitches in the ground. He said it after I cut my arm open so I could feel better about it. My son is in the hospital with new stitches. My father is dead— a patriarch he will never meet. The tracks sit stolid and indifferent; red and brown between the buried remnants of timber stifling the undergrowth.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 1:17 AM UTC
Family Ties
And everyone's O'Toole But in a bliss of ignorance They fashion him the fool For whoever saw an Irishman Vesti-ing a luminous emerald hat The size of a navvie's bucket Upon a wirey titian mat Or quaffing pints of soylent ale for the Irish wine they can't abide With phoney tears for the troubled years whilst faking Irish pride No, tis not O'Toole who is the fool But every other class of twit Who imagines that to dress in green Bestows one charm and wit For when Patrick's feast is over And the clock past midnight ticks your false fair weather Fenians will disavow us 'Bastard Micks'
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 8:15 AM UTC
March 17
stygian nights and i peer into the sky, contemplating the planets that sail round and round on riverboats in their titian skin. and i bet their bone structures have collapsed by now as they breathe aside the sun, but they know they need to spin and spin because they are the only ones left untouchable in this world. and i'm glad there's something to look up to because sometimes my fingertips reach to grasp the orbs, stretch to feel some sort of purity adorning my dirtied soul. and sometimes i lift my face skyward to let my eyes drink the same silver water the planets glide across. i dream that i can feel the stars settling on the corners of my eyes and i dream that ebony night quietly explodes between my bones until when i awaken beneath the streetlights. i swear i can feel the night slip like liquid sand through my fingertips. and god, i need you. i need you. because only when the moon enlightens my palms can i see the maps pressed to my skin. and without the stars draping light across my cheeks, a sleepy black curls around my ankles and follows me to bed. i guess i'm made of stark marrow and naked ocean eyes, pale in comparison to your lovely sinews. but that's why i need you. i need you to break through my windowsill each sundown and play my skin like an instrument. spill sonatas through each corner of the world, because with you alive and with me breathing and laughing i will feel whole.
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Dec 5, 2010
Dec 5, 2010 at 10:24 AM UTC
ebony night
stagnant nights and i peer into the sky contemplating the planets that sail round and round on riverboats in their titian-streaked skin. and i bet their bone structures have collapsed by now as they breathe aside the sun, but they know they need to spin and spin because they are the only ones left untouchable in this world. and i’m glad there’s something to look up to because sometimes my fingertips reach to grasp the orbs, stretch to feel some sort of purity adorning my dirtied soul and i lift my face skyward to let my eyes drink the same silver water the planets glide across. sometimes i dream that i can feel the stars settling on the corners of my eyes and ebony night quietly exploding between my bones until when i awaken beneath the streetlights i swear i can feel the night slip like liquid sand between my fingertips. god i need you, i need you, because only when the moon enlightens my palms can i see the maps pressed to my skin, and without the stars draping light across my cheeks, a sleepy black curls around my ankles and i do not know where to go. and i guess i’m made of naked ocean eyes and stark marrow, pale in comparison to your lovely sinews, but that’s why i need you. i need you to break through my windowsill each sundown and play my skin like an instrument, spill sonatas through each corner of the world because with you alive and with me breathing and laughing i will feel whole.
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Dec 5, 2010
Dec 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM UTC
i need you
Petrified for the last time, I cut my brittle heart out with a pair of nail scissors, clipping through the keratin down to the quick — the sharp, thick, constant sting of raw flesh, ribs spread to see the moist, shady maw, the red, white, and blue empty ring box of my lungs, a “yes” like soft velour, all tumescent and convex, pressed out with the fragments of vitreous gifts you poured down my windpipe (unintentionally vitriolic), gem shards, cold and hard, and I am scarified inside out. My heart, airlifted from its zone of alienation, wails and trails lank Titian locks, a red forest, scorched and floored. Still, the dead marble lump glows red and ***** like blood under nails. You are subdermal — eternally, infernally so. Put apples in my cheeks, speak but do not listen, I glisten — first with sweat, then tears, then soap suds. I shed my skin, touch fresh markings, milk patterns. Half blossomed rose bud, dismantled, curling up on myself, you’re out of the woods. I pull up my hood, drag my feet out of the mud, bind my open chest with the rest of my ruddy cloak and, sanguine, let drop my spleen into the puddle I leave behind, all dark with blood and bark. Your bite is not so bad but, oh darling, what big teeth you have.
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Feb 16, 2014
Feb 16, 2014 at 10:15 PM UTC
Exodontia
Three hundred sixty eight, that's how many tears Iv'e watched descend from those titian eyes. My warmth usually bakes her pains as I count her tears and scream silent prayers louder than her cries. Dear Lord won't you curse her with an eternal smile, one that glints so brightly she'll look in the mirror & know he's not worth it, that one bad grade doesn't mean it's the end. Are blessings possessions? Could I sign the rights to mine over to her Lord? because I'm so tired of watching life agonize my best friend. To Love someone is to share a heart.
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 9:01 AM UTC
368 Tears
Rusted butterflies swoop Fall into the copper canyons of My tires.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC
Titian